Show #8729 2022-10-27 (taped 2022-09-15) Second Chance

2022 Second Chance competition week 2, final game 1.

Contestants

Sadie Goldberger — an interpreter from Columbia, Maryland

Jack Weller — a law student originally from San Diego, California

Rowan Ward — a chart caller, writer, and editor from Chicago, Illinois

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
rowan $11,200 $11,800 $30,000 $30,000 $32,000
37 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Jack $400 $2,400 $6,400 $3,400 $6,400
10 R, 2 W
Sadie $-800 $0 $4,400 $4,800 $4,400
7 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

ANOTHER SHOT AT THE TITLE THE ANIMAL KINGDOM BRING ME A SOUVENIR! WORDS & PHRASES: IMMEDIATELY! WHICH CABINET DEPARTMENT? RADCLIFFE COLLEGE
$200 [30]
Serena Williams beat Angelique Kerber for the 2016 Ladies' Singles title at this event, but Angelique got her revenge in 2018
Wimbledon
Sadie
$200 [24]
The name of this insectivore has meant a scolding woman since before Shakespeare used it in a play title
shrew
rowan
$200 [26]
From Japan, a maneki-neko good luck figurine depicting one of these with upraised paw
a cat
Sadie
$200 [28]
Military-speak for getting somewhere extra fast, "on the" this sounds like a pace twice as fast as normal for civilians
the double
rowan
$200 [29]
U.S. Customs & Border Protection
Homeland Security
rowan
$200 [22]
Radcliffe College for Women merged with this Ivy League school where the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study endures
Harvard
rowan
$400 [27]
After losing to the Warriors in the 2015 NBA Finals, in 2016 LeBron & co. beat them to bring this city its first NBA title
Cleveland
rowan
$400 [20]
O. vulgaris, a species of this cephalopod, can change its skin color thanks to pigment-bearing cells
octopus
rowan
$400 [25]
From Ecuador, one of these straw hats that somehow is named for a country to the north
a Panama hat
Jack
$400 [23]
This French phrase that translates to "immediately" sounds like a noise you'd make in a fancy hotel room
tout de suite
Sadie
$400 [18]
The Office of Pest Management Policy
Agriculture
rowan
$400 [21]
Susan Stockardwent from the Madeira Prep School to Radcliffe to acting fame under this name
Stockard Channing
Jack
$600 [14]
After 5 previous World Series losses to these crosstown rivals, in 1955 the Brooklyn Dodgers finally beat them for the title
the New York Yankees
rowan
$600 [19]
Seen here it's not an ostrich but this Aussie bird
an emu
rowan Jack
$600 [16]
From Kyrgyzstan, a miniature wood-carved one of these nomadic dwellings, "ger" in Mongol
a yurt
rowan
$600 [15]
It's this phrase that says if something isn't done immediately, it won't ever happen; in related news, "my love won't wait"
It's now or never
rowan
$600 [17]
The National Reconnaissance Office
Department of Defense
rowan Jack
$600 [11]
This woman went to all of Helen Keller's Radcliffe classes with Helen but not to exams
(Anne) Sullivan
rowan
$800 [13]
Stripped of his heavyweight title in 1967, Muhammad Ali won it back with aKOof this champ in 1974's Rumble in the Jungle
George Foreman
rowan Jack
$1,000 [2]
A factor in human blood is named for this monkey seen here
Rhesus
rowan
$800 [12]
From Greece, a string of komboloi, or these, used not for religious reasons but to relax & counteract stress
worry beads
rowan Jack
$800 [8]
Give us this double-talk term quickly, as it means quickly & in this case, not to cut using 2 blows
chop-chop
rowan
$800 [4]
The National Nuclear Security Administration
Energy
rowan
$800 [10]
Radcliffe alumna Helen Taussigis considered the founder of pediatric this -ology
pediatric cardiology
Sadie
$1,000 [1]
After losing to Toronto in 1918, this team won its first NHL title the next year & has now won more than any other team
the Montreal Canadiens
rowan
DD $3,800 [6]
Males of these mammals engage in bouts called necking to establish a social hierarchy
giraffes
rowan
$1,000 [5]
From Ireland, one of these rings; the crown symbolized loyalty, the heart-love, & the hands--friendship
a Claddagh ring
rowan
$1,000 [7]
As an adverb, it means without hesitation, as in "I'll get it to you" this way; as a noun, it's a long part of a closed racecourse
straightaway
rowan
$1,000 [3]
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Department of the Interior
Jack
$1,000 [9]
A center of women's history studies, the Schlesinger Library opened at Radcliffe in 1943 on the anniversary of this amendment
the 19th
Jack

Double Jeopardy! Round

OCTOBERFEST THE SECOND CHAPTER LAKES & RIVERS 3 CONSONANTS IN A ROW LEARNED LEAGUES DANIEL RADCLIFFE COLLAGE
$400 [28]
She joined the Supreme Court as its second female justice October 4, 1993
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Jack Sadie
$400 [29]
Holden's history teacher says, "I flunked you in history because you knew absolutely nothing"
The Catcher in the Rye
rowan
$400 [27]
The oldest settlement in Paris, Ile de la Cite is in this river
the Seine
rowan
$400 [30]
Job of the person hired to renovate your house, perhaps after you find an architect
contractor
Sadie
$400 [25]
"Gift of Fire" is the official publication of the very high IQ society named for this fire-stealing Greek god
Prometheus
rowan
$400 [26]
(Daniel Radcliffe presents the clue.) In what didn't seem like the most obvious choice for me, I was handpicked by this musical parodist to portray him in the 2022 biopic spoof "Weird"
Yankovic
rowan
$800 [18]
In October 1936 power from this massive project began turning on lights & radios in the Western United States
the Hoover Dam
rowan
$1,200 [2]
Chapter 2 concludes, "Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!"
The Hound of the Baskervilles
rowan
$800 [14]
An 830-mile stretch of this river flows from Khartoum to Lake Nasser
the Nile
rowan
$800 [21]
If you see Socrates wearing a wristwatch in a play, it's one of these, partly from the Greek for "time"
an anachronism
Sadie
$800 [24]
A national honor society for college seniors is named for this cap seen here
mortarboard
rowan
$800 [23]
(Daniel Radcliffe presents the clue.) I played one of the two titlecharacterswho were just bit players in Shakespeare in a 50th anniversary West End production of this Tom Stoppard play that’s set against the backdrop of "Hamlet"
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
rowan
$1,200 [9]
On Oct. 13, 1884 this London borough was adopted as the Prime Meridian of longitude for global Universal Time
Greenwich
rowan
$1,600 [1]
An emperor's soldiers provide "An Exact Inventory of What We Found About the Body of the Man-Mountain"
Gulliver's Travels
$1,200 [13]
The Parana & Uruguay Rivers join to form this "silvery river" estuary
the Río de la Plata
rowan
$1,200 [20]
This narrow passage connects 2 big bodies of water
a strait
Jack
$1,200 [11]
Taking this "Preliminary" test is one step on the road to becoming a National Merit scholar
the PSAT
Jack
$1,200 [22]
(Daniel Radcliffe presents the clue.) In the 2013 film “Kill Your Darlings”, I played this poet just starting at Columbia University and meeting Jack Kerouac & William S. Burroughs
Ginsberg
Jack
$1,600 [7]
In the first united action by the 13 colonies (well, 9 of them), in Oct. 1765 delegates met to work to repeal this British law
the Stamp Act
rowan
$2,000 [15]
Milkman Dead falls in love with Hagar before seeing her face
Song of Solomon
Sadie
$1,600 [12]
Named for a princess, this lake in Banff National Park is the pearl of the Canadian Rockies
Lake Louise
$1,600 [19]
The test seenhereactually has 4 straight consonants but we're pretty sure you're human
CAPTCHA
rowan
$1,600 [10]
Contestants in Learned League, a web-based trivia game, are called these South American animals
llamas
rowan
$1,600 [17]
(Daniel Radcliffe presents the clue.) I got to sing on Broadway when I playedJ. Pierrepont Finchwho climbs the corporate ladder at the World Wide Wicket Company in a 2011 production of this musical with a really long title
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Sadie
$2,000 [6]
Led by Orson Welles, the Mercury Theatre panicked the U.S. with a live radio dramatization of this work on October 30, 1938
The War of the Worlds
rowan
DD $8,000 [3]
Ralph says, "We've been on the mountain top and seen water all around"
Lord of the Flies
rowan
DD $5,000 [4]
This river that flows 2,300 miles before emptying into the Caspian Sea is Europe's longest
the Volga
rowan
$2,000 [16]
This 6-letter word means to bud or germinate
sprout
rowan
$2,000 [5]
A signature gold key represents this philosophical society founded on Dec. 5, 1776
Phi Beta Kappa
rowan
$2,000 [8]
(Daniel Radcliffe presents the clue.) Um, I'd basically only done one small part in a school play when, at age 10, I played the title character, as a boy, in a BBC adaptation of this Dickens novel, the author’s own favorite child; the part really was magical as it led to me being cast as Harry Potter
David Copperfield
rowan

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN COMPOSERS

He turned to opera with the 1903 work "Guest of Honor", likely inspired by Booker T. Washington's dinner at the White House

(Scott) Joplin

Sadie "Who is Joplin?" — wagered $400
Jack "Who was Gershwin?" — wagered $3,000
rowan "Who is Joplin???" — wagered $0

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